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Maryland National Guard celebrates foreign partnerships
For Capt. Martin Noorsalu, deploying to Afghanistan with the Maryland National Guard last year was an unusual opportunity. Noorsalu is one of only a dozen helicopter pilots in the Estonian Air Force. The sole air defense service of the former Soviet...
Tags: Armed Conflicts, Afghanistan, Martin O'Malley, Baltic Region, Annapolis
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Historic agreement offers hope for a war-weary world
In a world wracked with seemingly unsolvable conflicts from the Middle East to Central Asia and the Korean Peninsula, there is a ray of hope from another historically war-ravaged region — the Balkans. After 10 intense rounds of negotiations and...Tags: Serbia, European Union, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Politics
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Global Voices: An artist's take on dictatorship's legacy
Anila Rubiku grew up in a country that no longer exists, at least not the isolated, repressed and paranoid state that was Albania before Eastern Europe’s anti-Communist revolutions. The Balkan country that broke away from its iron-fisted mentors...
Tags: Political Systems, Artists, Interior Policy, Petroleum Industry, Fine Artists
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13 killed in Serbia shooting spree
A 60-year-old man gunned down 13 people, including six women and a child, as he went on a shooting spree from house to house in a quiet village near Belgrade on Tuesday before trying to kill himself and his wife, police and hospital officials said....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Serbia, Shootings, Murder, Interior Policy
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Move over Dracula, tourists flock to see Bulgarian 'vampire'
World NowThe discovery last week of a 700-year-old skeleton with metal stakes where his heart had been has stirred a bout of vampire-mania in Europe and attracted flocks of tourists to the churchyard grave site in Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Sozopol. So keen is... -
Ditte Munch-Hansen and Pedja Jurisic: A continental divide mends
It's been a long six years to finally arrive at Happily Ever After.
Along the way there were missed connections and travails that spanned continents.
And that's just the early chapter of the love story of Chicago graduate students Ditte Munch-Hansen,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Romance (genre), Bosnia and Herzegovina, University of Chicago, Ellen Warren
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Pain now or pain later? Europeans prefer putting it off
World NowWith more than half of the 17 Eurozone countries slipping back into recession in recent months and popular discontent reaching a crescendo, overseers of the European common currency may be more likely to heed the hurting countries' calls for stimulus... -
Senior Travel: Railpass or no railpass?
If you're heading for Europe this summer -- and plan to travel around while you're there -- you may be considering some form of railpass. Before you buy, however, take a close look at all your alternatives. The variety of pass options is staggering: 27...Tags: Trips and Vacations, France, Services and Shopping, Travel
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5 Things It's Good To Know; Dinner Omelet, Best Bronzing Products, Back To School : Kindle Rental...
FOX 17 Senior Web Producer1. Omelet for supper a quick, filling treat An omelet for supper is a perfect end-of-week meal when the refrigerator is bare. All you need are a few eggs and some leftovers. And though puffy French omelets are impressive, and those incredible...Tags: Omelets, Armed Conflicts, United Kingdom, Crime, Law and Justice, Austria
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Beet poetry
My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than a bird's eye; and the plain, milky, peasant...Tags: Cabbage, Onions, Soups, Alcoholic Beverages, Carrots
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Beet poetry with borscht
My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than a bird's eye; and the plain, milky, peasant...Tags: Cabbage, Onions, Soups, Borscht, Carrots
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